The Future of Nostalgia – Spyros D. Orfanos
The late Svetlana Boym, a brilliant Russian and Slavic scholar, wrote a remarkable history of “hypochondria of the heart”…
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The Kiss – Patricia Ticineto Clough with Comments by Stephen Hartman
I was feeling strongly connected to my patient, a forty-year old, cis white, heterosexual…
(Be)longing – Almas Merchant, PhD
“Allahu Akbar!” Like every Muslim child born, these were the first sounds uttered directly into my ear. And in…
Uncertainty and Change – Velleda C. Ceccoli
I took this photograph during one of my evening conversations with the ocean. It had been a beautiful day, sunny…
The Tentacles Of The Twin Pandemics Strangling An Old Black Woman in Queens – Annie Lee Jones
Racism has always been a public health crisis, and I thought I had learned to live with the stalk…
Pandemia – Isaac Tylim
In Greek mythology Pan is the god of wild nature. It represents the idealization of primitive states prior to the…
Death and Life – Mary Joan Gerson
How does the twig become a bower? The bud a flower? The crusted earth reseeded? Life dwells in death and…
Whiteness Closing Ranks – Avgi Saketopoulou
In 2018, a few days before the start of an international psychoanalytic event, conference organizers sent a group email…
Risk Redux – Stephen Hartman, PhD
Remember New Year’s 2020? Six months ago feels like six lifetimes ago. Patricia Clough, psychoanalyst and media studies colleague,…
On Non Human Heroes: Captive Associations
Barbra Zuck Locker, PhD ` Dogs… At first I thought they would be blamed… Plague Dogs When It…